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For example: I want to sleep the in nitive to sleep completes the sentence. Without the in nitive to sleep the sentence I want does not make much sense. An in nitive in English is the form of the verb with to in front. For example to be or not to be and to jump are in nitives. Latin expresses the in nitive with the -re ending that we see in the dictionary entry . For example amo, amare and porto, portare. Amare is to love and portare is to carry. The term complementary comes from the Latin complere - to ll up. It should not be confused with the English wordcomplimentary which means either free of charge or nicety. Some imporant words that take the in nitive are: possum to be able to, soleo to be accustomed to, volo to want to, debeo to ought to and cupio to desire to. In the rst sentence Caesar wants the main verb is vult and it has no object. The sentence does not seem complete since we dont know what it is that he wants. NOTA BENE: vult is from the irregular verb volo, velle
COMPLEMENTARY INFINITIVE
verb
Caesar vult
object verb volo, velle- to want to
The complementary in nitive is when a verb ful lls the sense of another verb. For example: I want to sleep the in nitive to sleep completes the sentence. Without the in nitive to sleep the sentence I want does not make much sense. An in nitive in English is the form of the verb with to in front. For example to be or not to be and to jump. Latin expresses the in nitive with the -re ending that we see in the dictionary entry . For example amo, amare and porto, portare. Amare is to love and portare is to carry. The term complementary comes from the Latin word complere which means to ll up. It should not be confused with the English wordcomplimentary which means either free of charge or nicety. Some imporant words that take the in nitive are: possum to be able to, soleo to be accustomed to, volo to want to, debeo to ought to and cupio to desire to. In the rst sentence Caesar wants the main verb is vult and it has no object. The sentence does not seem complete since we dont know what it is that he wants. NOTA BENE: vult is from the irregular verb volo, velle
COMPLEMENTARY INFINITIVE
verb
Caesar vult
object verb volo, velle- to want to